Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-06 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/1/6, Oliver Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Chuanwen Not sure about the trail here ... seems you want to boot from a hp/compaq smart-array You need to install grub with the batch option. grub --batch --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf --no-floppy

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-05 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/1/5, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chuanwen Wu wrote: My problem is the grub can't find my partition or even disk.So now, when I press tab key, there is not any notation appearing.That I think,because grub can't detect my disk. /dev/cciss is a kind of Logic Volume Manager(LVM).I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-05 Thread Neil Walker
Chuanwen Wu wrote: Now,I can't boot any OS and can't even enter the grub menu. TBH, all the machines I have had with SmartArrays have also had a simple SCSI or IDE HD for the purposes of booting. It makes life so much simpler. ;) Given the low price of IDE HDs these days, you don't need a

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-05 Thread Chuanwen Wu
2007/1/6, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chuanwen Wu wrote: Now,I can't boot any OS and can't even enter the grub menu. TBH, all the machines I have had with SmartArrays have also had a simple SCSI or IDE HD for the purposes of booting. It makes life so much simpler. ;) Given the low price of

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-05 Thread Neil Walker
Chuanwen Wu wrote: Is it the only way? No, but it's the quickest and easiest way. It will probably save you a lot of time and frustration. Be lucky, Neil -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-04 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi,everybody! When i used livecd to install gentoo in my HP machine,the error occured when installing grub: _map_device_to_grub_device: Error:could not map /dev/cciss Use #fdisk -l to get the information of my scsi disk : Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1NTFS /dev/cciss/c0d0p2

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-04 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi, Chuanwen Wu schrieb: Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1NTFS /dev/cciss/c0d0p2Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p3extended grub root (hd0,1) or grub root (hd0,0) grub cannot access ntfs so you need to fire the bootloader from windows. I have no idea what the device

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-04 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Thank you Matthias! 2007/1/5, Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Chuanwen Wu schrieb: Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0 /dev/cciss/c0d0p1NTFS /dev/cciss/c0d0p2Linux /dev/cciss/c0d0p3extended grub root (hd0,1) or grub root (hd0,0) grub cannot access ntfs so you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] can't find my partition when config grub

2007-01-04 Thread Neil Walker
Chuanwen Wu wrote: My problem is the grub can't find my partition or even disk.So now, when I press tab key, there is not any notation appearing.That I think,because grub can't detect my disk. /dev/cciss is a kind of Logic Volume Manager(LVM).I don't know how exactly it works. It sounds to me